The wife of slain University of Connecticut medical school professor Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi was placed on house arrest Tuesday while newly released court records indicated he might have been dead for months before his body was discovered. Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, 70, who faces a murder charge after...

Courant Community

Town councilors this week voted to settle a 5-year-old federal lawsuit that accused two police officers of using excessive force against a 12-year-old deaf student with disabilities at the American School for the Deaf when they shot the boy in the back with a stun gun. The council authorized the...

The effort to revive Hartford’s crumbling Dillon Stadium cleared a major hurdle Friday, when the State Bond Commission approved $10 million in public funding for the project. City leaders are in the midst of negotiating a contract with Hartford Sports Group, chosen by the Capital Region Development...

The Imagine Nation Museum will hold its second annual "Bowling Pins, Pizza, & Prizes" fundraiser Feb. 18. Bowlers can register as a team. Proceeds benefit education programs at the museum. The fundraiser runs from 11 a.m. to 1p.m. at Spare Time Bowling at 177 Farmington Ave. There will be prizes...

Local Connecticut News

Hours after lawyers hired by the Marianapolis Preparatory School concluded that bullying did not lead to sophomore Connor Tronerud’s suicide, his parents disputed that conclusion and criticized the Thompson private school’s response in a statement released Friday. His parents said they believe...

Accidental deaths involving the synthetic drug fentanyl jumped in 2017 as overall drug overdose deaths exceeded 1,000 for likely the first time in Connecticut. Accidental drug overdoses have increased by nearly 200 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to data released Friday by State Medical Examiner...

The U.S. Senate has unanimously confirmed career prosecutor John H. Durham’s nomination to be Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney. “John Durham is a fierce, fair prosecutor,” said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “As a career prosecutor, John has dedicated his life to public service and the pursuit...

Opinion

The Florida sheriff had this to say after 17 people were murdered at a high school on Wednesday: “There really are no words.” There are many words. Let’s start with these three: Ban assault weapons. Nikolas Cruz legally purchased the AR-15 that he allegedly used to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman...

Are the media doing the job you expect them do to? Concerns about “fake news” have swept the media landscape since the election of President Trump. Oprah and the pope have weighed in. Most Americans, according to one recent poll, say they can’t name one single objective news source. But another...

These are the wrong people to deport. Their full names are Zhe Long Huang and Xiang Jin Li, but their friends call them Tony and Kris. They came to America from China more than 20 years ago, and they live in Unionville. They have two boys, 5 and 15, both born here. They own a nail salon in Simsbury....